MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Employee Engagement, Job Satisfaction, Job Attitude

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

Attitudes: capture managers" thoughts and feelings about their specific jobs and organizations. I feel angry that i am not being treated fairly. I just found out i am paid 20% less than my coworkers. Affect the emotional or feeling segment associated with that belief. Behavior the intention to behave in a certain way. I am going to quit this job soon as i can and tell everyone how terrible this company is. The cognitive component is composed of the belief in the way things are. The affective component is the more critical part of the attitude as it is calls upon the emotions or feelings. The behavioral component describes the intention to behave in a certain way toward someone or something. These three components work together to aid in our understanding of the complexity of an attitude. Job satisfaction: a positive feeling about one"s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics.